https://www.bookswithoutink.com/events daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://www.bookswithoutink.com/events/books-without-ink-visits-ubc-okanagan monthly 0.5 2020-11-29 https://www.bookswithoutink.com/events/outreach-event-in-the-okanagan monthly 0.5 2020-11-15 https://www.bookswithoutink.com/events/free-compost-workshop-g2b67 monthly 0.5 2020-11-15 https://www.bookswithoutink.com/events/annual-plant-sale-jh222 monthly 0.5 2020-11-15 https://www.bookswithoutink.com/events/touch-talk monthly 0.5 2020-11-15 https://www.bookswithoutink.com/contributors daily 0.75 2020-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1605453956928-5YUXJEUE7N9FF6UIX2F4/Archives+Logo.jpg Contributors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1605452884043-ADEL1U7JDT9SPSXT6GIJ/group%252Bscene%252Bwith%252Bdog.jpg Contributors A photograph of a group of people who stand around a large table that holds touch items, including two tactile maps, and headphones. Artifacts in glass cases are in the background of the photograph; a guide dog stands in the foreground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1605453740104-40UE7SCT1HOG9BLJYL3K/logos%2Bfor%2BBooks%2BWithout%2BInk.jpg Contributors This image element and the one beneath it share logos for five institutions: the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada, the University of Manitoba’s Archives & Special Collections, the American Printing House for the Blind, W. Ross Macdonald School for the Blind and the Perkins School for the Blind. The WRM logo includes the statement: “The Impossible is Only the Untried;” the Perkins logo gives the name Perkins in an inked version of braille. https://www.bookswithoutink.com/audio daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1605472941676-5LBBS9AV4UPLCP9RUZ7O/great%2Bimage%2Bfrom%2Bfacebook%2Bto%2Buse.jpg Audio This photograph of a June 1935 issue of the Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind features three kinds of text: a raised-print, inkless version of the roman-letter alphabet, used for the title, volume and publisher information, at the top of the page; raised-print Moon script for the main text of the magazine which begins with a title, “A Day in June;” and handwritten text in pencil that gives the same text given in Moon script but above it, interspersed between lines of Moon script. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1605472802939-BI1D5QYTKESLUTAC41KF/sabrina%2Bwith%2Bsuitcase.jpg Audio This photograph shows two women who lean on a small rolling suitcase that rests on the corner of a large stone hearth. A label taped on the suitcase reads “Fragile.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1605472707207-PON00FGWWI7NR9EUVME3/cbc%2Bshot.jpg Audio A photograph of a man wearing dark glasses sitting at a desk and touching the open pages of a tactile book. A woman stands beside the desk, touching the same book. Between them a standing man wears a recording device and holds a microphone to capture their conversation. https://www.bookswithoutink.com/home daily 1.0 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1605452693144-R96W3HXM8C5UEBFALJ37/Readers%2Bat%2Btable.jpg Home An engraving from an illustrated nineteenth-century magazine. It depicts three people: a woman who wears glasses and a dark puffed sleeve dress and two children, one on either side of her. The three sit at a table. One child reads a book by touch independently; the other child leans against the woman reader as she reads by touch with two hands on the open page of book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1605384964374-NRL2DB88TOMH0NTY62DP/Art%2Bimage%2Bfor%2Bsite.jpg Home A photograph of textured and inkless pages from an artist’s book by Teresa Jaynes. One page has the raised impression of a thin crescent moon; the other page shows text printed in William Moon’s adapted script for blind readers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1605385016101-SU3DWQJPSBHVZORWO020/vivi.jpg Home - Art A photograph of a woman who leans over a desk; she holds a braille alphabet guide and the leash of a guide dog with one hand; with the other hand she examines reproductions of now obsolete alphabets created for and by blind readers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1605473834454-XUN5EPI637AL1MYVUT1I/cbc%252Bshot.jpg Home A photograph of a man wearing dark glasses sitting at a desk and touching the open pages of a tactile book. A woman stands beside the desk, touching the same book. Between them a standing man wears a recording device and holds a microphone to capture their conversation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1605385138097-TJBIQK3QYEQXYUMHOV2Q/Norman%2527s%2Bwriter.jpg Home A photograph of part of an exhibit case containing a Hall Brailler, an early technology for creating braille text. The brailler has a roller for paper and 6 keys that resemble piano keys in shape and size. https://www.bookswithoutink.com/accessibility daily 0.75 2020-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1605484736136-2HA9HISMXPE7MIODN5WF/the%252Btouch%252Btables.jpg Accessibility Two large oblong tables are covered with an orderly display of opened books and magazines, an early 20th-century brailler, tactile maps, and two sets of headphones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1605482155934-JTNWA4JDJ6WU8ZN9L3EH/Using%2Bthe%2Bwriter.jpg Accessibility A man sits at a table with his hands on the keys of an antique brailler. Guides on its use, in ink and in braille, are posted by the brailler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1605484648434-SSLTEU3GK27RSEIM7DDY/roman.jpg Accessibility A close-up photograph of an early nineteenth-century history textbook printed in Howe type, a raised script that closely resembles the script in which ink-print books are printed, the key differences being an increase in size and the absence of ink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1605484403869-TK6HIIGO21WQQ9DDHILD/replica%252Bmaps.jpg Accessibility Two tactile maps rest on a table. A framed map depicts the British Isles. The map has inked place names on it but some of those names have been copied in braille, the braille presented on tags that are attached to the map with strings and pins. Upholstery tacks are used to create a tactile indication of mountainous areas. The second map, not framed, is a simple outline of South America. It is made of upholstery tacks positioned in burlap. The location of a mountain range and of three rivers are also indicated using tacks. A map of this kind would have been used by students to study geography and then to demonstrate their mastery of the subject by recreating the map on a blank canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1605484210183-7MOF9M392L59WJAGTK8G/Touch%2Btable%2Bclose%2Bup%2Bmoon%2Btype.jpg Accessibility A close-up photograph of a primer of William Moon’s script; the letters are both inked and raised and a portion of the sentence “God is Love” is visible below the alphabet. https://www.bookswithoutink.com/art daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1606681044660-Y095I9QLJR5YLAKIZ2IA/Moon%2527s%2Bfull%2Bposter.jpg Art - Teresa Jaynes’ “The Moon Reader” Teresa Jaynes, this exhibit’s guest artist, creates installations and artist books based on her research in libraries and special collection. She has exhibited her work widely in the US and is a recipient of a Pew Artist Fellowship from the Pew Charitable Trust. She is the creator of the interactive and accessible art installation “The Moon Reader,” an exploration of a raised-print writing system invented by William Moon. This installation was a focus of visitors’ attention for the duration of Books Without Ink. “The Moon Reader” explores the legacy of Dr. William Moon, a blind person, inventor and activist whose namesake script system was used by many blind readers in nineteenth-century Britain. In this piece, which features tactile elements and sound recordings, Jaynes engages the history of bookmaking, including blind people’s bookmaking. She also raises awareness of both similarities and differences between reading by touch and reading by sight. To learn more about Jaynes’ Common Touch a large-scale, multi-media installation exploring the activism and educational history of blind people, visit: http://commontouch.librarycompany.org/ https://www.bookswithoutink.com/exhibit daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1606688752340-7Y1YIKHNYWS6MKJHOJDR/Group+looking+at+windows+and+cases.jpg Exhibit Photograph of people and glass cases containing artifacts in the Archives space. This image showcases the challenges of exhibiting fragile materials that were designed to be touched. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1606689013539-I0UHDGKVDJQQIH30KUD6/iPhone+Pictures+2537.JPG Exhibit A close up image of words from a magazine article embossed in Moon script, this image shows a transcription of the text from the raised, inkless Moon script into cursive text handwritten in pencil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1606688776016-PFVDXXLGEZ39RQ93LPXE/Norman%27s+writer.jpg Exhibit A photograph of the contents of an exhibit case; the case features a Hall Braille Writer, loaned to the exhibit by collector and researcher Dr. Norman Ball https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1606689082466-HXMKDWIHRR15QCSLEYE6/2015-04-10+18.32.19.jpg Exhibit This image shows four women gathered around a table, in conversation about an early-twentieth-century tactile book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1606688800784-6LPPWKILQ3C4DH75XRXS/me+with+map.jpg Exhibit This image shows curator Dr. Vanessa Warne standing beside a large relief map of Canada from 1910. The surface of the map is well-worn, suggesting frequent examination by touch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1606688818469-7BB3LABSCMNOBEK350SA/Heather+artifacts.jpg Exhibit This image shows a trio of nineteenth-century photographs of blind people reading, two of them loaned by Dr. Heather Tilley. To learn more about these readers and their depiction, visit the Touching the Book exhibit, curated by Dr. Tilley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1606688840222-EJ58MSFX2ATQH15F2BRD/window+two.jpg Exhibit A photograph of the contents of an exhibit case, this image features an 1894 kleidograph, produced by the New York Institution for the Blind. This early writing machine, resembling an elongated typewriter and used to type a braille-like raised script named for its creator, William Bell Wait, is from the collection of the American Printing House for the Blind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1606688918982-761OSUTWX0XRXJHNHDRG/iPhone+Pictures+2323.JPG Exhibit This photograph shows seven books from the University of Manitoba's collection of importance to blind people's history of literacy, education and activism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5faf2e02a079b073262d1bdb/1606689405807-H7NRAP27WKVKRIX24VD6/Sabrina+revised.jpg Exhibit This image shows curator Sabrina Mark beside the opening window of the exhibit; the window features a replica of a nineteenth-century dress made by Sabrina Mark. https://www.bookswithoutink.com/join daily 0.75 2025-05-12